Share Buyback Programme

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC
12 April 2006

12 April 2006


                            SHARE BUYBACK PROGRAMME


InterContinental Hotels Group PLC ("IHG") announces that the company has entered
into an irrevocable and non-discretionary arrangement with its broker, Merrill
Lynch International, to repurchase on its behalf and within certain pre-set
parameters, ordinary shares in the Company for cancellation during the period
commencing on 18 April 2006 and ending on 28 April 2006.


This arrangement is in accordance with Chapter 12 of the Listing Rules and the
Company's general authority to repurchase shares.



For further information, please contact:

Investor Relations (Gavin Flynn, Paul Edgecliffe-Johnson):  [phone]
                                                            [phone]
Media Enquiries (Leslie McGibbon):                          [phone]
                                                            [phone]


Note to Editors:



InterContinental Hotels Group PLC of the United Kingdom (LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG
(ADRs)) is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms.  InterContinental
Hotels Group owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries,
over 3,600 hotels and 537,500 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and
territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and
respected hotel brands including InterContinental(R) Hotels & Resorts, Crowne
Plaza(R) Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn(R) Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn
Express(R), Staybridge Suites(R), Candlewood Suites(R) and Hotel IndigoTM, and
also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club(R)
Rewards.


InterContinental Hotels Group offers information and online reservations for all
its hotel brands at www.ichotelsgroup.com and information for the Priority Club
Rewards programme at www.priorityclub.com.


For the latest news from InterContinental Hotels Group, visit our online Press
Office at www.ihgplc.com/media.



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